Posters

Beaverton poster printers

• Bear Printing Tigard - no posters, largest 13x19
• $36, Cedar House Media Beaverton
  • Cory recalls: $3/sf, 18 inch wide any length 600 dpi

  • Roland VersaStudio BN-20

    • CMYK 1440dpi, 20 inch wide, USB2

    • manual

    • Probably waterproof, prints on vinyl to make stickers with cuttable boundaries
    • Printer firmware is Linux(!), Windows drivers only for the host
• $36, Costco
  • 20x30 $8.99 ($2.16/sf) 6060x9090 with edge bleed (300 dpi)
  • my membership has elapsed, it costs $55 to renew
• $87, Kinkos Beaverton - $7.25/sf, 60 inch wide any length, "200dpi", 3 days
  • Coated paper, may smear when wet?
  • HP Z6100 1200 dpi inkjet 8 color(!)
  • HP-RTL, HP-GL/2, CALS G4, TIFF and JPEG files
  • Waterproof with the right media, but does Kinkos stock it?

Making posters:

• GIMP - really hard to edit afterwards

• Scribus -> PDF -> bitmap, maybe?

• LyX / Latex / beamerposter - PDF

  • /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer, then texhash

  • ERT evil red text

  • With RHEL5, and qt 4.2.1.1, I can't upgrade beyond LyX 1.5.6
• convert -geometry 8100x5400 -density 1200x1200 -quality 100 trimet*pdf tri.png ( 8 minutes, 54MB, looks great )
• kpsepath, kpsewhich, ???

• http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

• LyX really isn't designed for posters, and to make it so involves configuration stuff that is way beyond my skillset
• I can write this in tex using sciposter